Hi Adam,
Well, as of now, I have no plans working on gender and animes -- but maybe I should ;-) The pardo, the Locarno festival, one of the top 10 festivals in the world, is not what it used to be this year. The organization and the films have left many people wanting. The world of mangas and animes is pretty removed from the likings of most of the people attending the festival, they are mostly "Bildungsbürger". Despite the fact that the festival has had this focus for a while (it was the brain child of the woman who is now running the Miami festival, a manga connaisseuse), and despite the fact that they are collaborating with a museum in Turino, Italy, on a big show on the topic, they were unable to come up in time with a book or even a brochure explaining to "us" why we should like these genres. From what I heard thru the grapevine, the person in charge of the publication was unable to secure the rights to the pictures in time. And unlike other festivals, they make no point of reaching out to the younger audiences who actually love these Japanese films and cartoons but who "we" need badly in order to sustain an interest in films and film festivals in general. Still, the film crowd does appreciate being alerted to a tradition they hardly knew before (my sense).
Thanks then for the biblio. Harris I have read coz she is one of the staples of the field, the Hopkins book I will order.
Nina
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Von: Film-Philosophy Salon im Auftrag von Adam Stapleton
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Hi Nina,
If you're exploring shojo then it may be useful to have a look at some
of these texts:
Allison, Anne (2000) Permitted & Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics
and Censorship in Japan: University of California Press.
Allison, Anne (2006) Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global
Imagination: University of California Press. [particularly chapter 5
on Sailor Moon]
Miller, Laura and Jan Bardsley (eds) (2005) Bad Girls of Japan:
Palgrave Macmillan.
Napier, Susan (2007) From Impressionism to Anime: Japan as Fantasy and
Fan Cult in the Mind of the West: Palgrave Macmillan [Chapter 6 on
cosplay could be relevant]
Other texts that I thought could of some more general relevance are:
Harris, Anita (2004) Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty First
Century: Routledge
Hopkins, Susan (2002) Girl Heroes: The New Force in Popular Culture:
Pluto Press.
Good luck with the article. It sounds very interesting
Kind Regards,
Adam Stapleton
On 8/13/09, Zimnik Nina (zini) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> oh my. I just took two days off from the film festival in Locarno to make
> some headway on this Hannah Montana article that I have been meaning to
> write this summer. The Pardo places a focus on Mangas and animes. I have
> seen a lot of that lately. Thank you very very much for pointing me to a
> take on the representation of girls in that field! as an aside: you may know
> that the anime industry is dominated by men. I mean aside from Japan`s
> leading tax payer, a woman who composes film music for these animes, there
> are no women in power positions. they draw, they reach mid-echelons etc. We
> are not in an American gender-conscious environment. -- at the Round-Table
> three days ago, the main men from the industry were gathered there, e.g. the
> director of 12 Pokemons, heads of the studios. A woman from Swiss Films
> popped the gender question : where are the women? meaning : here at the
> table and in the films? well, despite the porn, despite the fact that animes
> are rooted in boy culture, there are strong female figures that girls
> identify with. But not mine. None of her girlfriends like to watch the
> Japanese cartoons that we can watch on TV. I do not know why. They prefer
> Hannah Montana.
> Tomino, who received the Golden Leopard, was so refreshing. He said, oh, you
> know, we just make up these women. They are not women I would ever hope to
> conquer myself (imagine his Japanese giggle). He is old, a towering figure
> of the genre. Still, I cannot think of a man from my Euro-US walks of life
> who would have unabashedly admitted to such projections, to the joy he finds
> in them.
>
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> Dr. Nina Zimnik
> Dozentin ISBB Kommunikation Deutsch
> ZHAW (Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften)
> Departement Angewandte Linguistik
> Büronummer SF 03.09
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> 077 207 2896
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> Von: Film-Philosophy Salon im Auftrag von Botz- Bornstein
> Gesendet: Do 13.08.2009 15:21
> An: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: Re: Hannah Montana / stardom / girls`studies
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> I would look at Japanese shojo (young girl) culture. A lot of the phenomena
> mentioned have been theorized there. Hjorth 2003, John W Treat 1996, Sharon
> Kinsella's "Cuties in Japan" will be useful for the beginning.
> Cheers
> Thorsten
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